Maternity rights

[Jac1970stone]

On a train and can’t help overhearing a loud woman talking to what appears to be a male colleague saying how some people really take the p1$$. The conversation continues as to how one of her team is taking advantage by taking maternity leave saying that she returned to work after just 10 days after xx was born and another short time after xx was born and really slaying off the woman concerned with the man nodding and agreeing.

So shocked that an employer in this day and age - and a female boss at that with her own children - can be this obnoxious!

I know when I had my Dc’s my maternity leave was the most important of my life to date for the opportunity to spend time with them etc and also as the boss at a small charity how I would be with any of my staff being pregnant.

Feel so sorry for the poor employee having a boss like that!

Really shocked!

Well congratu-fucking-lations, womanonthetrain. I once got hit by a car and went straight back to work instead of the hospital. I think I'll do other people down for making different choices rather than admit I should have put myself first.

Cool girls, cool wives and cool colleagues. They're a plague upon our house.

I'd guess parents in 'higher status' roles are likely to have different priorities...but also more options financially.

Structural inequality, both due to sex and social/economic status. That's why we have maternity leave as a right not a privilege.

Ah yes, the Not Like Other Girls.

God, I was one of those once. In retrospect all it did was make me more mockable to boys, and distrusted by girls.

God, I was one of those once

Me too, but I grew out of it by 21, which is probably itself a bit beyond the limit of youthful idiocy. Grown women really should know better.